Help with building setup

location201 · Sep 6, 2014

So currently I'm in the planning stages of building a gaming PC. I have a budget of around £600-800. I'm totally willing to spend a little more if you think it's justifiable. I just want it to have an optical drive, easy to upgrade if I need to and play current and new games at a decent rate. The price doesn't include a monitor but the rig should be able to support 2 screens. I personally can't come up with one because whenever I do my research I keep hearing new information that confuses me. Mostly with the GPU and CPU. Do I go Intel or AMD for the CPU? AMD or Nvidia for the GPU? Help with this is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance guys.

turkey3_scratch · Sep 6, 2014

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£157.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.74 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card (£258.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£63.52 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£50.93 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.98 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N10 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£10.80 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £804.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-06 14:17 BST+0100

If you don't need an OS you can remove that.

location201 · Sep 6, 2014

turkey3_scratch :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£157.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.74 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card (£258.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£63.52 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£50.93 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.98 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N10 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£10.80 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £804.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-06 14:17 BST+0100

If you don't need an OS you can remove that.

Thanks

Seems like a good setup.

sora · Sep 6, 2014

turkey3_scratch :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£157.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.74 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card (£258.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£63.52 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£50.93 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.98 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N10 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£10.80 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Aerocool Shark 82.6 CFM 120mm Fan (£6.97 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £804.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-06 14:17 BST+0100

If you don't need an OS you can remove that.

And if you had no OS in the build I would put the money in a GPU or CPU.

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